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7-Foot Recycled Optimus Prime Sculpture Is A Junkyard Nightmare

This Optimus Prime sculpture should debatably be part of our Junkyard Finds series because this seven-foot monstrosity is constructed entirely of car parts. Unlike the original Optimus Prime, this sculpture lacks color and any Mack truck affiliation, but nevertheless, it's pretty spectacular. The best fact of all is that this 551-pound Optimus Prime is even for sale for a blistering $4,838.71 (likely plus shipping). And Optimus isn't the only Transformer receiving some artistic love.

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12:20 PM on Mon May 19 2008
By Travis Hudson
2,943 views, 16 comments

Latest by Nick_Bentley: Wish I had a corn field because that would be an awesome scarecrow. Hmm could always launch bottle rockets out of it on 4th of July, bet that would make a good Youtube video. more »

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Optimus Prime Spotting Reaffirms Transformers 2 Filming

Who's that familiar truck spotted on a Los Angeles freeway? Oh! It must be Optimus Prime! This Optimus Prime spotting comes less than a week after we saw twin Barricades in Culver City, Calif., and it just continues to affirm that the sequel to the robogasm Transformers is, indeed, in the early filming stages.
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6:15 PM on Wed Apr 2 2008
By Travis Hudson
8,035 views, 28 comments

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Homemade Optimus Prime Costume Also Deserves Props



It may not quite be the Citroen transformer, but these kids still deserve props for creating a Optimus Prime costume worthy of recognition. It appears to be around 10 feet tall, which is inching closer to a scale model of the real (and by real, I mean not-real) Optimus Prime [Blasphemy! — Ed.] Click the video above for a very anti-climactic video of Optimus Prime getting dressed and ready for work in the morning (and by work we mean killing Decepticon assholes). And y'all thought it would be the new boss-man doing the Transformers posts around these parts, eh?

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4:15 PM on Tue Dec 11 2007
By Travis Hudson
182,966 views, 34 comments

Latest by n/a: that "kid" is actually a 30 year old guy.. he has another 3 videos uploaded on his youtube account (username: azrael723) more »

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Optimus Prime Hit With $236,000 Insurance Premium

Saving the world from evil Decepticons isn't all it's cracked up to be. For one, the overheads are ridiculous. With gas set to hit $4.00 a gallon, Matrices of Leadership running a cool $6.5 million and less than understanding insurance agents, we're surprised they don't pack it all in for a lucrative reality TV show gig or just subcontract the work to Halliburton. More »

1:45 PM on Mon Jul 9 2007
By Wes Siler
2,282 views, 7 comments

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Slate's Swansburg Pits 1986 Transformers Movie Versus 2007 Transformers Movie, Forgets About Generation One

I cannot believe I'm about to engage in a toolerific blogosphere tête-à-tête with John Swansburg on Transformers mythos — but whatever, I must defend an egregious display of fan-boy cultural blasphemy. Swansburg tries to provide a compare and contrast on the 1986 Transformers movie and the 2007 Transformers movie debuting today. The problem is Swany has totally missed the point here and is making the cinematic error of basically correlating apples to Decepticons. The new movie was never meant to be any kind of a replacement, re-do, remake or re-anything of the 1986 movie. Rather, it's an attempt... More »

2:30 PM on Tue Jul 3 2007
By Ray Wert
2,780 views, 14 comments

Latest by thnikkamax: Bah weep grana weep nini bong, bee-otches! more »

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The Jalopnik Transformers Movie Quasi-Review: An Ameribot Revolution!

Last night Ben Wojdyla and I made our way over to Birmingham to take in a sneak preview showing of the new Transformers movie. This review is split into two parts — one that's safe and spoiler-free (starting here above the fold) and then the nitty-gritty of the film (at the bottom of the area in italics below the fold). Peruse the part below the fold at your own risk and may the maker have mercy on your non-robotic soul. Oh and the pictures, there's some LA preview pics in there and some pics the General gave us of some of the designers — oh, that first one's Brian Smith, he put the stripes on Bumblebee, and yes, that's the light-up Autobot t-shirt. — Ed. More »

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12:01 AM on Thu Jun 28 2007
By Ray Wert
6,916 views, 29 comments

Latest by n/a: Finally saw it yesterday. Anybody that hasn't yet: do so when you're able. That was a great movie and it will definately lose something on a TV screen (much like Starwars IV-VI). more »

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Vote For Brian Lam, Our Little Gadget Bitch

This is Brian Lam. Brian runs our little site obsessed with gadgets. Brian's usually a good guy, but today he's pissed one of us off a little. Can anyone guess why he may have pissed off one of us? If you can't figure out why, then you obviously haven't been reading us enough. But we won't hold any grudges against Brian. Oh, wait — is there some sort of nerd popularity contest poll going on over at Business 2.0 today where you can vote whether or not Brian matters? We wouldn't want to influence that in any way now would we? Hmm — well — just to show we're good sports — we ask you guys to head on over and help Brian out by giving him "100" after you're done looking at him playing with toys below. – Ray Wert More »

8:15 PM on Tue Jun 12 2007
By Ray Wert
879 views, 11 comments

Latest by Ray Wert Jr: @Ray Wert: Wouldn't I be Ray Wert IV? Or am I Jr. till you die? Or how does that work? I never understood that. more »

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Transformers Movie Update: MTV Shows Over A Minute Of New Hot Robot Action!

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Transformers Movie Update: Fifty Hot Screen Shots Of Movie Action!

Despite the whole "Optimus Prime with lips" thing, we've got to say we're still pretty excited about the upcoming live-action movie. Of course, maybe that's only because we were able to snag these fifty some-odd PR shots from Paramount Pictures. Enjoy the ensuing robogasm. [Please note, we cannot be in any way held liable for those of you having a robogasm and any other -gasm simultaneously due to the hot robot action spliced in with the hot Megan Fox action. Just sayin'...] – Ray Wert More »

2:32 PM on Mon May 7 2007
By Ray Wert
6,383 views, 26 comments

Latest by dculberson: @Ray Wert: *cough*kindom2000*cough* more »

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Transformers Movie Update: Michael Bay Forum Reports Optimus Prime WILL Have Lips

It looks like there's now a definitive answer on the question of "will he or won't he" when it comes to giving Prime the lips that whatever robotic god never wanted him to have over the past however many years he's been around. TFW2005's pointed us to their scoop on everyone's favorite Autobot leader via Nelson over on the Shoot For The Edit forum. He's saying:
"The photo of OP in the LA Times [above] should tell you what the final decision is on the mouth/faceplate/battle mask is."
Guess that means there's still potential for Michael Bay to create some kind of Optimus on Megan Fox makeout session as part of his desire to push the boundaries of unnecessary love stories in an action movie. The part though that's killing us is that the site Admin who tossed it out there is asking for us to "quit the whining." Yes, well — one of us will quite the whining when his boss decides not to so liberally toss around my childhood memories like an empty energon cube. Just sayin'... – Ray Wert More »

5:58 PM on Sat May 5 2007
By Ray Wert
14,954 views, 26 comments

Latest by macdawson: I've watched it, re-watched it and re-re-watched it.And you know what? Optimus is cooler than ever, Megatron is just pure evil and the rest of the autobots and decepticons , even those with short screen time are just SPECTACULAR.Yeah, they more »

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Transformers Movie Update: Optimus Prime, It's You -- It's Really You!

In case you can't tell from the splice below, the Lam-man and the Chenster from Gizmodo have the first hands-on with the Optimus Prime toy from the new live-action Transformers movie. I think I just had a robogasm over this here long-nose semi. We've got a taste of the gallery below, but head over to our gadget-obsessed friends to check out the hands-on. – Ray Wert More »

4:00 PM on Mon Apr 30 2007
By Ray Wert
3,531 views, 3 comments

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Transformers Movie Update: Optimus Prime Will NOT Have Lips -- So Sayeth Michael Bay!

The Bay speaks, and here's what he has to say about our little video we obtained of Autobot king trucker Optimus Prime speaking with the lips:
"The unreleased ad (Prime speaks) that was posted on youtube was a test that European were making with the ads. The clip where OP was "speaking," lets just say that it wasn't OP or Cullen speaking. It was something the European studios added on their own. In fact, it was a test shot."
Glad he finally cleared that up. Oh yeah, we've also got some new screen shots from the movie to show you — enjoy. We know we will, because tonight will be the first night in a long while we can finally sleep soundly knowing Bay hasn't fubar-ed at least this one tiny part of our most cherished memories of childhood. – Ray Wert More »

2:01 AM on Thu Apr 26 2007
By Ray Wert
16,091 views, 17 comments

Latest by Bumblebee: Dude, I finally just figured out whose eye that is on the international poster. I'm probably the last guy on earth to realize its an eye behind a 3D Autobot symbol face. more »

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Transformers Movie Update: Optimus Prime Has Lips?!

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Transformers Toys For Tots: Bumblebee And Optimus Prime Show Their Stuff At ToyFair

The Transformers loving kids over at our favorite hangout for all things robots in disguise is live from New York City's Javits Center, home this week to the annual ToyFair show. This year it would seem it should be renamed something like "BotFair" or "TransFair" or something similar as the big news appears to be something we've been covering over here for quite a bit now, the upcoming Transformers live-action movie. The kiddies at TFW2005 have put together some galleries of what's cooking over on 11th Avenue. And in addition to what appears to be some amazing shots of the Camaro concept-transforming Autobot known as Bumblebee and his big boss truck, Optimus Prime, we've also now got Hasbro's official pictures of the toys — all ready in a gallery below to sate your fan-boy cravings. And if you've even got to ask why we're so excited, just take a stroll down the memory lane of our past posts here. – Ray Wert More »

1:43 PM on Tue Feb 13 2007
By Ray Wert
8,200 views, 6 comments

Latest by kingdom2000: ToyFair has lots of good TF goodies. I am looking forward to Ultimate Bumblebee and Optimus Prime. The must have though is the Death Star that transforms into Darth Vader. This site has links to all more »

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This Is Our Country, This Is Our Autobot: Transformers Trailer Hits The Web, Features Camaro Concept

Although we've heard the General was late to the game of connecting its products to the new Transformers movie, as you can see from the above screen cap we've taken of the trailer from the live-action Transformers movie, they've certainly popped right in faster than a headmaster's crappy little action figure head. The movie will have the Camaro concept car playing an integral role in — oh for Primus' sake, just read this if you haven't been following — there's more important things to be telling you. Because although the US trailer site's not yet live — the UK site is, so hop over across the pond to get a piece of the robot goodness before your friends who aren't reading us see it later this afternoon. Also, feel free to peruse the screen caps we've pulled from the trailer's transforming goodness below. [UPDATE: Apparently Macs with Intel Inside (TM) are outta luck on the full-screen version for now. Watch the tiny Bumblebee-sized one on the site, and then come back over here to gawk at the screen caps.] – Ray Wert More »

10:25 AM on Wed Dec 20 2006
By Ray Wert
5,030 views, 40 comments

Latest by zeeboid: Apple Sucks, buy a PC you mac people. And dispite the opinions of some here, Bad Boys, Bad Boys 2, Island, The Rock, did very well. Pearl harbor sucked but thats another story. Giant Robots? Check. Cars that transform into more »

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Exclusive Transformers Update! Michael Bay Is Leaking Robot CGI All Over The Interwebs

We received a couple more pics this AM from one of our own embedded "Deep Throat" tipsters in the land of Michael Bay. And this here tipster got us some gems — how about that Bumblebee blaster above, eh? We've got four of the larger-than-life CGI and prettily-painted pics of the Camaro-y Bumblebee, the diesel-y Optimus Prime and of course, the — err — metallic crap-y Megatron in the gallery below. [Hat tip to faithful reader and Studebaker owner Mike!] – Ray Wert More »

10:43 AM on Mon Dec 4 2006
By Ray Wert
5,784 views, 6 comments

Latest by Torokun: PUKE~! more »

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Transformers Live-Action Movie Update: Jazz Is Driving Excitement And Ratchet's Hummer Gets A Robot Mode

Well, it's been a while since we last updated folks on what the interwebs have been abuzz with — Transformers movie leakage. We're more than happy to give you folks an update courtesy of the nice young fan-boys over at TFW2005 — who've come up with some great sketches of two Autobots — Jazz and Ratchet. We've sneak-peeked Jazz above, and showed off how even if Pontiac's not driving excitement so much anymore, he's still showing off that Pontiac arrowhead logo, front-and-center. Pontiac had better hope Mr. Jazz makes it through the movie alive, or else there's going to be much talk (at least here there will be) of how it'll be serving as an analogy for the brand. Also, we've got Hummer-licious Ratchet below the jump and a screen-cap of a scene from the new film picked up from the folks at AintItCoolNews. Hit the jump for the fun. Remember, if you want to keep up to date — there's always our Transformers tag and to keep up visually, there's always the Transformers gallery. – Ray Wert More »

6:18 PM on Sun Dec 3 2006
By Ray Wert
22,625 views, 6 comments

Latest by silky: Prime must of gone to "Trick Out My Truck!" How dissapointing. As a fan from childhood, I am insulted. How dare some over zealous director change ALL the elements that made this show great. Why? To put the "Bay" stamp. more »

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Transformers Live Action Movie Exclusive! Optimus Prime And Starscream Are So Cybertron, They Don't Even Know It

Before landing on Earth to delight us with their lovely auto- and machina-riffic disguises, and while still on the planet of Cybertron, the Transformers have some other type of alternate form. That's because, you know, Cybertron may have a lot of things, but we're guessing they probably don't have any Steve Saleen Mustang's or Camaro's. Instead, they'll have what one tipster is calling a "protoform" — the form they have before they get to Earth. It'll be techie — it'll be metallic — and it'll be interesting looking. Unfortunately, in order to make them for little Earth fan-boys, there's a decent amount of lead time involved, and now we've got the first look at the prototype "protoform" toys and packaging of two big names in the big bot universe — Optimus Prime and Starscream. Full gallery via the link below (beware, there be potential spoilers). – Ray Wert More »

6:15 PM on Tue Oct 24 2006
By Ray Wert
1,434 views, 5 comments

Latest by psombrio: I'm VERY disappointed so far. From what I've seen you creators miss the point of bringing the TRANFORMERS to life. I grow up with them I've seen every incarnation of these amazing creatures. From the original japanese version to now. more »

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